Mine detail: Nipple Mountain Prospect

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 38.64084, -105.12029

Resource(M)

Primary: Tungsten
Ore: Wolframite
Gangue: Quartz
Orebody form: LENSOID, TABULAR, POD-LIKE
Discovery year: 1925

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host type:Diorite,Granite
Associated rock:Granodiorite;Phonolite
Associated type:Phonolite
Structure:Front Range, Phonolite Stock
Tectonic:Central Cordillera, Southern Rocky Mtns

References

MRDSD009186
DEP10094544
Reference{Deposit:: BELSER, CARL, 1956, TUNGSTEN POTENTIAL IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, GUNNISON, LAKE, LARIMER, PARK, AND SUMMIT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7748, P. 7-10.}{Deposit:: SCOTT, G.R., TAYLOR, R.B., EPIS, R.C., AND WOBUS, R.A., 1978, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PUEBLO 10X20 QUADRANGLE, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: USGS MAP I-1022, 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: HEINRICH, E.W., 1981, PRECAMBRIAN TUNGSTEN AND COPPER-ZINC SKARN DEPOSITS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO: CGS RESOURCE SERIES 21, 115 P.}{Deposit:: LEMMON, D.M. AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE UNITED STATES: USGS MAP MR-25.}
ReporterCollins, Donna B.